Word of the day – плотник

After a break of a few weeks, I started studying Russian again today. This week’s lesson is about occupations. It provides the Russian words for various jobs, but unfortunately doesn’t tell you how to say “I am a …” or “I work as a …”. Such sentences will hopefully appear later in the course.

я плотник, you are implying that there is an idea that you are inherently meant to be a carpenter, but say you were trained to be a linguist, but gosh-darnit, the soviet of linguists won’t let you in, and you have to work in the carpentry profession, then you would say:

я роботаю плотником. “I work as a carpenter” with ‘carpenter’ in the instrumental case. Hope this has been helpful!